Highlights of the programs of Singapore IP Week, AIDB 2026 Conference and EPIP Conference 2026, Turin, Sep. 2026

 

ighlights of the programs of Singapore IP Week, Aug. 26-27, 2026, AIDB 2026 Conference @ EPIP Conference 2026, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Sep. 9-10, 2026, and EPIP Conference 2026, Sep. 9-11, 2026, originally published Sep. 8 and 15, 2026 in Reply 2 to Patent and Patent Information Events in September 2026, posted at the PIUG Community Discussion Forum, Aug, 29, 2026.

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Aug. 26-27, 2026

IPOS Singapore IP Week 2026 “The Rise of AI: Is it IP as Usual? Aug. 26-27,2026 (Singapore)

Global Forum on Intellectual Property® (GFIP®) Conference:

Aug.26, 2026

CNIPA Feature Session Dr Changyu Shen, Commissioner, CNIPA

Add. Info: Dongping, Que.(CNIPA), Innovative Practice of AI Technology Empowering Patent/Trademark Examination, China. WIPO ICT Leadership Dialogue (WILD) Second Session, April 14, 2026, 7 p. Dongping, Que.(CNIPA), Leveraging AI to Empower Patent Examination and Search, China.WILD First session, April 15, 2025, 21 p.

The Breakthrough in How We Make Breakthroughs, Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs Google & Alphabet 

Add. info: Google at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property, 2026-08-26. Google Company News. [The transcript of Kent Walker’s keynote address, delivered during Singapore IP Week 2026.] “…Google’s mission has always been to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. AI is a quantum leap in how we make progress against that mission. Our new AI models are 300 times more efficient than those from just two years ago. Not 300% — 300 times.”

Aug.27, 2026

“Adapting to the AI Era: How the JPO Is Evolving,” Yasuyuki KASAI, Commissioner, JPO

Add. Info: JPO AI Vision (July 2026, 8 p.); JPO, Action Plan for Utilization of AI technology (Rev.2025).[ 2.  Prior Art Search (Concept Search, Re-ranking Patent Documents, etc.); ３. Prior Art Search (Advanced Search)], Changes June 25 2026: "3. We will move to the introduction phase for the Advanced Technology Survey2 (advancement of search methods).”;杉浦健文, May 23, 2026. The Japan Patent Office fully introduces AI - How will examinations change? (Current status of 2022-2026 plan). EVORIX, IP Law Firm; Morooka, Kenichi (JPO). Initiatives for Utilizing AI Technology, Japan, WIPO ICT Leadership Dialogue (WILD) Second Session,WILD/2, April 14, 2026, 9 p.

Feature Session by Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP). Yeonwoo Jung, Vice Minister, MOIP, Republic of Korea, 

Add. Info: Jung, Jaehwan (MOIP), AI Transformation of Korea’s IP System. WIPO ICT Leadership Dialogue (WILD), Second Session, April 14, 2026, 12 p. (see p.7, ('24~'26) “AI-based Similar Sentence Search (R&D)”); Han, Gyudong.(KIPO), 2025. AI Tools for KIPO’s IP Administration, WILD First session, April 15, 2025, 17 p.

IP Marketplace, Aug. 25, 2026

From Query to Agent: Rethinking How IP Gets Done. Dr Cheng Tai, Co-founder & CEO, GoVeDa [AI Patent Intelligence co-developed with IPOS, with free account options] [Physical AI Landscape Report, Aug. 2026, 141 p., produced with GoVeDa agent, 240,000 patent families and ~ 60 billion tokens of patent content, see summary]

AI-Powered IP Intelligence: Combining Technology [AI-enabled tools], Expertise [expert-led patent intelligence] and Strategic Portfolio Management. Eric Khoo, Nilufer Morkaya and Vatsal Parekh, Clarivate.Cf. Clarivate Introduces IPOne (May 29, 2026, Clarivate AI agents seamlessly connected to Derwent, Darts-ip, CompuMark   and industrial design data)  and ip247.online by Clarivate)

Associated event, Aug. 26, 2026, 2.15pm - 5.00pm Patsnap Semiconductor Industry Sharing Session: AI-Driven Innovation, IP Strategy and Regional Collaboration. Keynotes: Dr Mick Lin (Jung-Yi Li, 林忠億), IP Affairs Division, Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) and Xiaodong Liu, Patsnap

See also PatSnap. May 4, 2023. Artificial Intelligence in Boosting Semiconductor R&D; Semiconductor Technology Intelligence Report, "Technology Intelligence" semiconductor site:https://www.patsnap.com/resources/blog/, ~40 reports, Mar. –May  2026, for example, AI inference chip technology landscape 2026. (Mar. 30, 2026); Latest Intelligence in Semiconductors, 9 innovation reports, last updated  Apr. 2026; 30 patent landscapes related to semiconductor technologies (Sep. 11, 2026); Semiconductors: A PatSnap Deep Tech Report; Eureka Patsnap Blog: semiconductor manufacturing (May 22, 2026); Semiconductors: A PatSnap Deep Tech Report  (n.d), etc.

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AIBD Program, Sep. 9-10, 2026

9/9 9:00-13:00 CET IP Data Search and Analysis for Economics and Legal Matters. 

Assessing Patent & Technological Trends using IPC and CPC Classification Systems. Luca Falciola, QPIP, Scibilis; Massimo Barbieri, QPIP, Politecnico di Milano; Italy (…including the potential missed opportunities / avoidable misinterpretation) when applying such IPC and CPC codes across jurisdictions and technologies.

Cf. Barbieri, M., 2024. Patent landscape analysis: How to find information on hydrogen peroxide industrial syntheses. Science Talks 12, 100400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100400 (Combination of IPC/ CPC codes with highly precise keywords (for searching in the Title/Abstract/Claims fields)

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Reliability of Patent Searches Based on Title or Abstract. Domenico Golzio, IP Advisor; Massimo Barbieri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

See Barbieri, M., Golzio, D., July 2025. On patent searching: the case of 3D-bioprinting. Trends in Intellectual Property Research 3(2), 9–16. https://doi.org/10.69971/tipr.3.2.2025.48 (on the same subject)

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 Trademarks in Patents: From Keywords to AI. Simona Venturini, SVIPsearch; Davide Russo, University of Bergamo, Italy

See Castaldi, C., Castellacci, F., Colladon, A.F., Segneri, L., Venturini, F., 9 Jul 2026. Measuring AI innovation with trademark data. ArXiv. 27 p. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.18795; Prof. Castaldi’s LinkedIn post, Jul 27 2026,  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carolina-castaldi-16167418_ai-trademarks-patents-activity-7487472711733018625-noLS

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The New Designs after the implementation of the EU Design Reform: a first review. Mary Desmond, Examiner, Operations Department, EUIPO

See EUIPO blog: EUIPO, July 1, 2026. The modernised EU design legal framework is now fully applicable. EUIPO. 

From Patstat to TIP: The Logical Path of a Patent Landscape Analysis . Riccardo Priore, QPIP, Area Science Park Trieste

See Arne Krueger & Riccardo Priore EPO PATLIB 2025 Demo Project “Claude Code Enhancement of Patent Analytics”, deposited on GitHub, including README.md, CLAUDE.md, Live Demo Screencast (Jun. 26 2026), Riccardo Priore’s presentations Patent landscaping and tech trends, Knowledge Transfer to Africa, 5 May 2025, 59 p. and [No title]. 18 Jun 2025, and Mar. 2025 background paper Priore, R., Compagnoni, M., Favot, M., 2025. Innovation in rare earths recycling: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of patent data. Resources Policy 102, 105519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105519; see also EPO Technology Intelligence Platform web page for further information.

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Name Standardization challenges and the Global Identifier, Young-woo Yun, Head of the Standards Section, WIPO. 

See materials of WIPO Name Standardization Workshop, May 12, 2025, including on Global ID Project (Nicolas Hauw, WIPO); Harmonizing Applicant Names (Mosahid Khan, WIPO), Current issues and challenges for IP information users, (Guido Moradei, CEPIUG/AIDB), etc.), Global Identifier Project (Young-woo Yun, WIPO CWS/11, 2023), etc.; WIPO’s digital harmonization efforts (pp. 8-10) (Young-woo Yun, WIPO at PTMG Spring Conference, Munich, Germany,  23 Mar 2026, etc.

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9/9 17.00-18.00 CET

AIDB Roundtable “Democracy of Access to Intellectual Property Information in the Global Society”. Chairman: Dr. Nigel Clarke, Stanfield Clarke Associates; Panelists: Nathalie Montillot, TISC, WIPO, Roberta Romano-Götsch, , Dr.rer.nat, EPO, Carla Scorsini, QPIP, ISBQPIP Secretary, AIDB Board Member, Frank Tietze, Univ. Cambridge

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9/9 18.00-19.00  and 9/10 8:30-10:30 CET AIDB Sponsored EPIP 2026 Themed Session “The Origins and Evolution of Patent Systems: Historical Foundations and Modern Innovation Policy” Part I &II. 

The European Patent Journey: From the 1474 Venetian Statute to the EPC and Beyond, Roberta Romano-Götsch, (currently) Spokesperson, EPO

Cf. EPO current exhibition: The European Patent Journey (at the Culture Space A&T 5-10 at the main building of the European Patent Office, in Munich, Germany

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Colonial patents: industrial property law and nationality in Mandate Palestine, Michael Bimhack, Faculty of Law,Tel Aviv University* 

Add. info. [See Mandate Palestine's Reconstructed Trademark and Patent Registries (1917-1948) (Tel Aviv University, 2025) <https://en-law.tau.ac.il/MandatePalestineIP> , incl. The Reconstructed Patent Registry of Mandate Palestine (1924-1948) (Methodology Patents,  an image collection (an example Application #0069 (10 December 1927) <https://tinyurl.com/325fr8xb>)  and a searchable register; a paper Birnhack, M.D., 2026. Colonial Patents …The Journal of Legal History 0, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2026.2687386)

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EPIP Conference 2026, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Sep. 9-11, 2026

Highlights of the EPIP 2026 Program (other than Convegno AIDB 2026 linked session highlighted above).

9/9 Session #P1-3i: Innovation and IP in the Life Sciences

# 268 Establishing and enforcing patent rights on technologies that enable mRNA vaccine deployment worldwide: evidence from a PCT-specific patent monitoring dataset, Luca Falciola, QPIP, Scibilis SRL, Brussels (Belgium) [PCT filing data from MPP mRNA datasets[one of which developed by Luca] is linked to national and regional national phase entries relying upon multi-jurisdiction databases, IPC codes and priorities, etc.]

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#P1-5i: Innovation, Patents, and GI: 

#287 Breaking the paywall: patents as channels for scientific disclosure [abstract]. Benjamin Buettner, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL); 

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#P1-8i: AI and ML Methods for Patent Research: 

#156 From scratch to silver: creating trustworthy training data for patent-SDG classification using LLMs [abstract]. Grazia Sveva Ascione, Politecnico di Torino [silver-standard dataset]; 

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#99 Who Gets a Patent? The Role of Examiners and Applicants [abstract]. Seung-Hyun Hong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Small firms < large firm, novelty of examiner cited prior art measured by PatentBERT embeddings]; 

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#278 Examination Timing and Prior Art Relevance: Evidence from Semantic Similarity of Patent Citations. Yasushi Hara, Kobe University, and Tetsuo Wada, Gakushuin University [PaECTER, higher textual similarity correlates with shorter prosecution durations] (see series of articles  published by Prof. Wada in 2011-2024 on citation practices in EPO/USPTO/JPO)

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#P3-9i: Green Innovation, Climate Policy, and Sustainable IP Strategy: 

#106 Silent Green: When Y02 Overcounts ICT and Undercounts Decarbonization in Heavy Industry. Hamid Bekamiri, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark [Y2 classification errors Type I, Patent Greenwashing & Type II Silent Green (expressed not in explicitly environmental terms); Y2 structural bias in favor of ICT]

See a preprint:: Bekamiri, H.(AAU), Auernhammer, J. (Stanford Univ.) et. al, 25 Aug 2026. Systematic Bias in Green Patent Classification: Silent Green and False Green. arXiv, 56 p.. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.23420

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#245 Market-Based Climate Policy and Firm-Level Green Innovation: Evidence from Patent Data on China’s Carbon Emissions Trading System Pilots, Leqing Yang, UCL Centre for New Economic Transitions [using patent quality, technological breadth, and technological depth, for assessing ETS-induced green patent innovation, alternative green patent classification schemes: ENV-TECH(OECD), Y02/Y04S, and the WIPO IPC Green Inventory; Use of Moody;s Analytics (formerly Bureau van Dijk) Orbis IP database]